Tag: Immigration

The Use and Abuse of Holy Week in Boston, Washington, and Rome

April 8, 2026 Jeannie Connerney

As Christians celebrated Holy Week around the world, messages from activists at Good Friday peace events and statements from Pope Leo contrasted starkly with the shamefully bizarre words coming out of the Trump administration. The imagery drawn from Christianity was used in a manner so […]

The Challenges of Mexico’s State Affairs and United States Interference

May 22, 2023 Megan Lee

by Megan Lee Mexico is essential for relations between the United States and all other Latin American countries. The current state of affairs in Mexico is turbulent due to a rise in cartel control and coyote smugglers that have presented dangers to both migrants trying […]

Limiting the Right to Asylum

January 30, 2023 Sunny Robinson

By Sunny Robinson A note: by necessity, this article focuses on policy issues because humanizing policy is what is required of us in the US for solidarity and justice. As you read, try to imagine what it is like to be a migrant, all your […]

Immigration: What is needed for genuine reform?

November 7, 2022 Sunny Robinson

By Sunny Robinson As we in the United States approach election midterms, we face challenging immigration issues on many fronts. None of what Joe Biden promised – immigration reform, an end to the use of Title 42 as an excluding mechanism, economic assistance that would […]

War Creates Immigrants, and all People Displaced by War Deserve Asylum

May 3, 2022 Sunny Robinson

By Sunny Robinson War creates immigrants. In many ways, that is really all that needs to be said. If we – the people of the world – are to be able to remain in their own countries, and prosper there, and the United States especially, […]

Berta Cáceres in the Rio Blanco region of western Honduras in 2015. (coolloud, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Migration as Resistance

July 21, 2021 Aviva Chomsky

by Aviva Chomsky Originally published in TomDispatch.com with additional photos from Consortium News Earlier this month, a Honduran court found David Castillo, a U.S.-trained former Army intelligence officer and the head of an internationally financed hydroelectric company, guilty of the 2016 murder of celebrated Indigenous activist Berta […]

A History of Institutional Violence at the U.S. Border

September 25, 2020 Dévora González

by Dévora González and Azadeh Shahshahani Originally published in the CEC Journal of the Bartos Institute for the Constructive Engagement of Conflict. When it comes to the U.S. government, no one should confuse agency size for the likelihood of accountability. For example, U.S. Border Patrol […]